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How To Care For Your Fresh & Healed Oral Piercings
What To Use For The Inside
Alcohol Free & Peroxide Free Mouthwash
No matter the brand you choose it is import that the mouthwash you use has no alcohol and no peroxide. Alcohol and Peroxide are incredibly rough on the mouth and especially on wounds, they’re far too strong and drying.
Hydrogen Peroxide reacts with titanium, you don’t want the product you’re using to degrade and damage the quality of your jewelry.
How To Care For The Inside
Recommended for tongue piercings, and the inside of a lip or cheek piercing.
Rinse your mouth out with clean drinking water
after every time you eat, snack, or drink anything
other than water. Do this until the swelling has gone
down completely and your piercer has changed out
your initial jewelry for new, form-fitting jewelry at a
comfortable length.
Return to your piercer when the swelling has gone down and stays down completely for 3 full days in a row. It’s common for swelling to fluctuate so we want to make sure it’s actually done being swollen before putting in a shorter barbell. The time this takes is different from person to person, but it’s common for swelling to subside sometime around the 2nd week.
What To Use For The Outside
Isotonic Sterile Saline Solution
Use an isotonic sterile saline solution, make sure it is NOT an eye contact solution or a nasal spray solution.
No matter the brand you choose it’s important that the can contains no preservatives or additives.
How To Care For The Outside
Spray directly onto your piercing 2 times a day for the entire time that your piercing is secreting fluid and becoming crusty.
When showering and washing your face; rinse your piercing
thoroughly at the end of your routine to fully rinse out any shampoo, conditioner, or cleansers/soaps that may have gotten inside the piercing channel while washing.
Directly after a shower is the best time to remove any crust build-up or scabs that may have formed between cleaning. The water from rinsing in the shower has most likely washed away the majority of the crust and any left over can easily be wiped away with a damp paper towel.
Too much moisture is a common way piercings get irritated
and form bumps, make sure your piercing is able to air dry quickly after showering or washing your face. You’ll want to make sure that your piercing is drying quickly after spraying with saline as well. Spraying too much can make your piercing too wet for too long and cause irritation.
Come Back For A Downsize!
Wearing ill-fitting jewelry for too long can alter the piercing channel, cause migration, and the constant movement makes it harder for the piercing to heal. This can ultimately lead to rejection.
Return to your piercer when the swelling has gone down and stays down completely for 3 full days in a row. The time this takes is different from person to person, but it’s common for swelling to subside sometime around the 2nd week. It’s common for piercings to be slightly irritated after a downsize as the piercing is still healing.
It’s important to know that some piercings require more than one downsize, make sure to factor that into your budget when considering getting a piercing.
Damage to your teeth and gums is guaranteed to occur with a barbell that is too long. Remember that damage to the teeth and gums is always a risk with having oral piercings, so it’s important to listen to an educated Piercer as well as your Dentist for advice to minimize this. Annual dentist visits to ensure your piercing is not affecting your teeth and gums is highly recommended.